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CHAPTER I. 



COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 



Section 1. The design of the Synod in the establishment of 
this Institution being the promotion of sound learning on a 
Christian basis, the Course of Instruction shall embrace a 
thorough curriculum of all the Arts and Sciences usually 
taught in Colleges of the first class, with the addition of a full 
course of religious instruction. 

Sec. 2. The Faculty, when fully organized, shall consist of 
the following officers : 

1. A President, who shall also be Professor of Ethics, Meta- 

physics, and Sacred Literature. 

2. A Professor of Ancient Languages. 

3. A Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. 

4. A Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, etc. 

5. A Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature. 

6. An Instructor in Modern Languages. 

7. An Adjunct Professor of Ancient Languages. 

8. An Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. 

Sec 3. The President shall be an ordained minister of the 
Presbyterian Church, (0. S.,) and it shall be his duty, with the 
aid of the other ' members of the Faculty, to maintain public 
worship on every Sabbath, and to see that all the Classes are 
instructed in the Bible and in Sacred Literature. 






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Sec. 4. Every officer of the Faculty must be a member in 
good and regular standing of the Presbyterian Church, (0. S.,) 
and must take such part in religious instruction as may be 
assigned him. 

Sec 5. The students shall be arranged in four classes, bear- 
ing the usual names, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior, 
and each requiring one year to complete the course of study 
assigned to it. 

Sec 6. The duties of the Professors shall be distributed upon 
a basis of equality, as nearly as possible ; but each member of 
the Faculty will be expected to assume additional duties when 
necessity may require it. 

Sec 7. The President is charged with the general super- 
vision of the instruction of all the classes, and the general in- 
terests of the College in all respects ; and he is required to 
report annually to the Board of Trustees all facts connected 
with these subjects, and to offer such suggestions as he may 
deem of sufficient importance. 

Sec 8. The Faculty shall hold regular weekly meetings. 
The President shall have a vote as any other member of the 
Faculty ; and in case of a tie, may give in addition the casting 
vote. 

Sec 9. All decisions in Faculty meetings shall be made by 
a majority of the votes. 

Sec 10. The Faculty shall appoint one of their number to 
be Recording Secretary, whose duty it shall be to keep a full 
and fair record of all the transactions of the Faculty, and he 
shall read these minutes at every successive meeting of the 
Faculty, and the Record Book shall be laid before the Board 
of Trustees at least once in each year. 

Sec 11. The Faculty shall also appoint another member of 
the body Corresponding Secretary, whose duty it shall be to 
conduct all the official correspondence of the Faculty. 



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CHAPTER II. 



TERMS OF ADMISSION. 



Section 1. Students intending to enter tins Institution must 
report themselves to the President within twenty-four hours 
after their arrival ; and in case of failure to do so without satis- 
factory reason, they may be denied examination, at the dis- 
cretion of the Faculty. 

Sec 2. An applicant for admission must present a certifi 
cate of good moral character from some reliable source. If 
from another college, he must produce the President's certi- 
ficate of honorable discharge. 

Sec 3. As circumstances sometimes prevent students from 
obtaining such discharge at the time of their departure from 
the college w r ith which they were connected, in all such cases 
time will be allowed the student to obtain it. 

Sec 4. Such student may be received on strict probation 
until the expiration of the time agreed upon ; and any viola- 
tion of law in the interval will subject him to dismission. 

Sec 5. In case the certificate be not produced at the speci- 
fied time, the case of the student thus received on probation 
will be disposed of in the discretion of the Faculty. 

Sec 6. Every student, without exception, will be required 
to study the Bible. 

Sec T. All students will be required to take the regular 
College course, unless otherwise directed by parents or guar- 
dians, in writing, addressed to the President. 

Sec 8. Such students as enter to take a partial course will 
be required to arrange their selected studies so as to recite if 
possible three times every clay, as is required of the regular 
classes. 

Sec 9. Partial course students who cannot so arrange their 
studies as to recite three times daily, shall, nevertheless, 
be required' to spend each of the three recitation hours in the 
room of some' one of the Professors during the recitation of 
the class. 

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class until he shall have entered his name, age, name of 
parent or guardian, and post-office, in the matriculation book. 

Sec. 11. Previous to matriculation, the student must pro- 
duce a certificate from the Treasurer that he has paid his 
tuition and other college fees, or that he is a free student, or 
entitled to a Scholarship. 

Sec. 12. Longer than the second day after his arrival will 
not be allowed an applicant to make all his arrangements to 
enter upon the studies of his class. 

Sec. 13. E~o student having been entered as a regular, shall 
afterwards be allowed to take a partial course, save at the 
discretion of the Faculty. 

Sec 14. E~o student will be admitted to full standing in any 
class, without satisfactory qualification in all the studies re- 
quired. 

Sec. 15. "When a student applies for admission, he shall be 
presented with a printed copy of the Laws; and the act of 
matriculation, thereafter, shall- be regarded as equivalent to a 
solemn promise, on the part of such student, faithfully to 
obey all the laws and regulations of the College. 

CHAPTER III. 



STUDY, RECITATION, AND RECREATION. 

Section 1. The hours of study shall be from sunrise to 
breakfast, from 2 o'clock to 5 P. M. in summer, and from 2 J 
o'clock to 4J P. M. in winter, and from 7 o'clock to 9 P. M. in 
winter, and from 8 to 10 P. M. in summer. 

Sec. 2. The hours of recitation shall be, in summer, from 8 
o'clock A. M. to 11 A. M. ; in winter, from 9 o'clock A. M. 
to 12 M. 

Sec. 3. From breakfast to a quarter before 8 o'clock A. M. 
in summer, and to a quarter before 9 in winter ; and from 12 
o'clock M. to 2 P. M. in summer, and from 1 to half-past 2 P. 
M. in winter ; and from 5 to 7 P. M. in winter, and from 5 to 
8 P. M. in summer, shall be allowed as hours for recreation. 

Sec. 4. Students will not be required to study after 9 o'clock 
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a misdemeanor for a student to be absent from bis lodgings 
after tbose bours. 

Sec. 5. Tbe Faculty and students sball be required to attend 
prayers in tbe College Chapel, daily, at a quarter before 8 A. 
M. in summer, and a quarter before 9 A. M. in winter. 

Sec. 6. The roll of all tbe students will be called at prayers, 
and of each separate class at its own recitation, and tbe ab- 
sentees noted. 

Sec. 7. At the end of every term, of which there shall be 
three in each session, the student's standing shall be made 
out and sent to the parent or guardian. 

Sec. 8. The numerical standing of each student in every 
department shall be combined, and an estimate made of his 
average scholarship after every examination. 

Sec. 9. This abstract shall also include in it a statement of 
all absences and delinquencies with which the student may be 
chargeable during the current term, and a record of the de- 
merit marks he may have incurred, and a statement of the 
place in the class which the student may occupy in the order 
of merit. 

Sec. 10. The abstract from the record transmitted to the 
parent or guardian, shall not indicate the exact numerical 
standing of the student, but only his standing according to the 
following classification : All students whose combined esti- 
mate may reach the number 90 and upwards, shall be con- 
sidered and reported, Excellent ; those ranging from 75 to 90, 
Good ; from 55 to 75, Respectable ; all under 55, Deficient. 



CHAPTER IV. 



EXAMINATIONS, COMMENCEMENT, ETC. 

Section 1. There shall be an examination of every class, com- 
mencing about the loth of December, (unless that day should be 
the Sabbath;) and continuing until completed ; if the loth be 
the Sabbath, the examination shall begin on Monday ensu- 
ing. There shall be another examination commencing about 
the 15th of March, in like manner; and the annual examin- 



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ation of the three lower classes shall begin on the last Monday 
in June, and continue until completed. 

Sec. 2. The final examination of the Senior Class shall 
begin one month previous to the day of the annual Com- 
mencement. 

Sec. 3. Absentees from examinations shall undergo an ex- 
amination before they can join their class. 

Sec. 4. If a student absent himself from any examination 
without sufficient cause, he may be excluded from College, or 
conditioned, in the discretion of the Faculty. 

Sec. 5. The annual Commencement exercises shall consist 
of a Baccalaureate Sermon on the Sabbath previous to the 
first Monday in July ; the Sophomore Prize Declamation on 
the first Monday ; the Junior Exhibition on Tuesday ; and the 
exercises of the Senior Class, and conferring degrees, on Wed- 
nesday. 

Sec. 6. There shall be two vacations in the year — the first 
commencing at the close of the December examination, and 
ending first of January ; and the second beginning on Thurs- 
day after the first Monday in July, and closing ten weeks 
thereafter. 

Sec. 7. The Degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be conferred 
on all students who may have completed the full College 
course of study. 

Sec. 8. The Degree of Master of Arts shall be conferred 
upon no one, until the Trustees and Faculty shall be satis- 
fied that the applicant has pursued and accomplished some 
course of study additional to the College course, or has been 
engaged in teaching successfully the Classics and Sciences, 
for at least two years from his graduation. 

Sec. 9. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws shall be 
conferred only upon persons distinguished in the literary or 
scientific world, or in professional life. 

Sec. 10. The degree of Doctor of Divinity shall be conferred 
only upon Ministers of the Gospel, eminent for their piety 
and for their profound theological learning. 



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CHAPTER V. 

COURSE OP STUDY AND MODE OF EXAMINATION. 

Section 1. The general outline of studies pursued shall be 
that of colleges of the first class, embracing a full course of 
instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, viz. : the Greek 
and Soman Languages and Literature, Mathematics, Shctoric, 
History, ancient and modern, Logic, Ethics, Metaphysics, 
Evidences of Christianity, Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, 
Geology and kindred sciences, Political Economy, together 
with Sacred Literature. 

Sec 2. The mode of examination shall be by written an- 
swers to written questions submitted to the student for the first 
time on his entrance into the examination-room, which he is 
to answer without assistance from books, notes, memoranda, 
other students, or in any way whatever. 



CHAPTER VI. 



COMPOSITION AND ELOCUTION. 



Section 1. Every class shall be exercised in Composition 
and Elocution, at stated periods during the term. 

Sec. 2. The Freshman Class shall present Compositions 
once in each month, to some one of the Professors ; the Sopho- 
more Class to another, at the same time; and the Junior 
Class to another, at the same time. 

Sec 3. The members of the Senior Class, in lieu of this 
exercise, may be permitted to deliver original speeches, in 
alphabetical order, in the College Chapel, on Friday morning, 
in presence of the Faculty and students assembled at prayers. 

Sec 4. The three lower classes shall declaim selected 
speeches, taking one-half of each class once in three weeks, in 
presence of the President and the whole class. 



CHAPTER VII. 

LIBRARY AND LIBRARIAN. 



Section 1. The Faculty shall appoint a Librarian, who 
shall be responsible for the management of the Library. 



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Sec. 2. The Library shall be opened on every Tuesday at 
the close of the recitations. 

Sec. 3. Students wishing books must examine the list 
posted at the door, select the book, and ask the Librarian for 
it ; but on no occasion will it be allowed a student to enter 
the room and take a book from the Library. 

Sec. 4. A list of all books, maps, manuscripts, and other 
matters belonging to the Library, shall be made out by the 
Librarian ; and he shall report annually to the Board of Trus- 
tees the state of the Library. 

Sec. 5. 'No person except Trustees, Faculty, undergraduates, 
and resident graduates, and such other persons as the Trustees 
or Faculty may authorize by resolution, shall be allowed the 
use of the Library. 

Sec. 6. All damages done to books shall be charged to the 
borrower. 

Sec. 7. A lost or irreparably injured book, if a separate 
work, shall be paid for; and if one of a series, the whole set 
shall be paid for by the person in whose hands the volume was 
lost or injured. 

Sec. 8. A book shall be kept by the Librarian, in which he 
shall record the titles of all books borrowed, the names of the 
borrowers, and the time at which they were borrowed. 

Sec. 9. E"o book shall be taken from the Library with- 
out being recorded, on pain of one dollar fine for every 
offence. 

Sec. 10. Folios and quartos may be retained two w r eeks, 
octavos and duodecimos may be retained one w T eek. But any 
volume may be renewed on the borrower returning it at the 
expiration of the time allowed, and submitting it to the 
Librarian for inspection. 

Sec. 11. Books taken out by members of the Faculty or 
Trustees must be recorded by themselves in a separate book 
kept for that purpose. 

Sec. 12. All books must be returned at least ten days pre- 
vious to Commencement day. 

Sec. 13. Students owing lines for injuries or losses to the 
Library must pay them to the Treasurer before they receive 
their discharge, or Diploma. 






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CHAPTER VUI. 



RELIGIOUS EXERCISES. 



Section 1. Every student is required to attend prayers daily 

in the Chapel, and preaching in the Presbyterian church of 
La Grange on Sabbath morning, unless otherwise directed by 
his parent or guardian, of which the President must be noti- 
fied in writing by said parent or guardian. Every student also 
is required to recite in the Greek Testament on Monday morn- 
ing, except partial course students. 

Sec 2. Students whose parents or guardians so request, in 
writing, addressed to the President, shall be excused from 
studying the standards of Presbyterian doctrine; provided 
that, in lieu thereof, all such students prepare and recite a 
prescribed portion of the Bible. 

Sec. 3. Any violation of the Sabbath will be punished in 
the discretion of the Faculty. 

CHAPTER IX. 
free students : CANDIDATES for the ministry free. 

Sectiox 1. Students preparing for the Ministry of any de- 
nomination shall receive tuition gratuitously, on application 
to the President, with the consent of the Faculty. 

Sec 2. Students applying for admission under this rule, 
must come recommended by the Presbytery, or other ecclesias- 
tical body having control of them. 

Sec 3. Students thus educated, and afterwards abandoning 
the study or office of the Ministry in order to engage in 
secular occupations, (save for ill -health,) shall be bound 
to refund their tuition fees. 



CHAPTER X. 

DISCIPLINE. 

Section 1. The penalties which may be imposed are, ad- 
monition, reprimand, private dismission, suspension, and ex- 
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Sec. 2. JSTo student shall be condemned without an oppor- 
tunity for explanation of his conduct. 

Sec. 3. Any student charged and proved guilty of carrying 
about his person, or keeping in his possession, fire-arms, or any 
deadly weapon, shall be suspended. 

Sec. 4. A student using, or threatening to use, a weapon in 
a quarrel, shall be expelled. 

Sec. 5. A student sending, or accepting, or bearing a chal- 
lenge in a duel, shall be expelled. 

Sec. 6. A student guilty of a flagrant offence against moral- 
ity shall be expelled. 

Sec. 7. IsTo student shall be permitted to keep a pistol or 
gun, or other deadly weapon, at his room, under any circum- 
stances. 

Sec 8. Students may not use a gun in hours of recreation, 
for hunting, without permission from the President. 

Sec. 9. All guns owned by students (save those who reside 
with their parents) must be deposited with the President, and 
kept under his control. 

Sec. 10. A student guilty of profane swearing, of uttering 
obscene or improper language, or of drawing or exhibiting 
indecent pictures, shall be punished in the discretion of the 
Faculty. 

Sec 11. A student guilty of intoxication shall be punished 
with suspension for the first offence, and expulsion for the 
second. 

Sec. 12. A student guilty of disrespectful language or con- 
duct towards a member of the Faculty shall be suspended. 

Sec. 13. No student shall keep wine or spirits at his room, 
or elsewhere, except when prescribed by a regular Physician, 
and permitted by the President. 

Sec. 14. Students are not allowed to visit in the families of 
citizens without the permission of the President during the 
term, except on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. 

Sec. 15. Students, while in attendance on College during 
term, shall not attend balls or parties for promiscuous dancing. 
The festival known in other Colleges as " The Commencement 
Ball," or " Dancing Party," is positively prohibited; in lieu 
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Sec. 16. No student during term shall attend a dancing- 
school. 

Sec. 17. Students are required to treat strangers, citizens, 
and especially ladies, with respect, and to abstain from, rude 
and ungentlemanly deportment on all occasions. 

Sec. 18. Cards and all games of hazard are forbidden on 
pain of suspension. 

Sec. 19. No student shall be permitted to leave the College 
during term, unless the written request of his parent or guar- 
dian be addressed to the President to that effect, specifying 
the object of his leaving. 

Sec. 20. Except in cases of protracted illness, or some pro- 
vidential detention, such absence shall not extend beyond the 
time specified, under such penalty as may be adjudged by the 
Faculty. 

Sec. 21. The Faculty shall not have the power of miti- 
gating the penalty of expulsion, in cases where the law pre- 
scribes that penalty ; but all other penalties may be inflicted 
or mitigated in their discretion. 



CHAPTEB XI. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Section -1. Not more than two Literary Societies shall be 
allowed among the studients, and the times of their meetings 
shall be regulated by the Laws of the College. 

Sec. 2. The meetings of these Societies shall be held for the 
present on Saturdays, commencing immediately after prayers. 

Sec. 3. Such students as are not members of either Society, 
are required to keep their rooms during the sessions of the 
Societies. 

Sec. 4. The remaining portion of Saturdays, until 7 o'clock 
P. M. in winter, and 8 in summer, shall be allowed for recrea- 
tion. 

Sec. 5. The Faculty are at liberty to visit students at plea- 
sure, at any hour of the day or night. 

Sec 6. Students are required to admit the Faculty when- 



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ever they call upon them ; and in case of refusal on the part 
of any student to admit a member of the Faculty, the officer 
may enter by force, all resulting damage being at the expense 
of the occupant of the room. 

Sec. 7. 'No student will be allowed to board in the family 
of any individual who will not admit the visits of the Faculty 
on the above terms. 

Sec. 8. All damages done to the College building or other 
property of the College, shall be repaired at the expense of 
the perpetrator, when he can be detected, or, if not, at the 
expense of the body of the students. 

Sec. 9. A student who leaves College in arrears to any fund 
for part of which he is responsible, shall not rejoin his Class 
at the opening of the next session until his indebtedness is 
liquidated, nor shall any student receive his Diploma until all 
arrearages are discharged. 

Sec. 10. A graduation fee of five dollars will be required of 
every member of the Senior Class, when he receives his 
Diploma. 

Sec. 11. Respectful petitions and memorials from the 
students to the Faculty will always meet with due consider- 
ation. 

Sec. 12. All rules and regulations not included in this Code, 
which may be deemed necessary by the Faculty, may be 
established during the intervals of the regular meetings of 
the Board of Trustees, subject to the review of the Board at 
their subsequent meeting. 

Sec 13. Students are required to remain in their rooms 
during the hours assigned to study — not engaging in riotous 
or disorderly conduct, and not playing on any musical instru- 
ment. 

Sec. 14. A schedule of demerit shall be kept, which shall 
be applied to the deportment of the students ; and all offences 
not punishable by expulsion, suspension, or dismission, shall 
be marked in proportion to their demerit. 

Sec. 15. This schedule shall range to a maximum which 
shall be kept secret by the Faculty, and the attainment of the 
maximum number of demerit marks shall render it necessary 
for the student to withdraw from College. 



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Sec. 16. This schedule shall be transcribed by the Record- 
ing Secretary, in the book of minutes of the Faculty. 

Sec. 17. A student notoriously deficient in punctuality in 
attendance on College duties, or in scholarship, shall be re- 
ported to the Faculty at their weekly meeting. 

Sec 18. On the first report, the President shall be required 
to admonish him, and endeavor to reclaim him. 

Sec. 19. If such student be reported a second time, the Cor- 
responding Secretary shall be required to write immediately 
to inform his parent or guardian of his standing, and request 
his cooperation in reforming him. 

Sec 20. Should such student be reported a third time, his 
parent or guardian shall be requested to remove him from 
College without delay. 

CHAPTER XIX. 

TUITION FEES AND OTHER EXPENSES. 

Sec. 1. The price of Tuition in the College shall be, for the 
Collegiate Year, Fifty Dollars, one-half of which shall be due 
at the opening of the session, and the remainder on the first 
Monday of January following ; and no student shall be allowed 
to recite unless he produce a receipt from the Assistant Trea- 
surer that he has paid his fees. 

Sec. 2. Each student will be required to pay to the Treasurer 
at the opening of the session, Five Dollars, for servant hire 
and contingent expenses of the College, including fuel for the 
recitation rooms. 

Sec. 3. Students may be permitted to board in private 
families, or at such places as may be approved by the Faculty, 
the price of board being such as may be agreed upon between 
the parties concerned. 

Sec. 4. Students entering two months or more after the 
session has commenced, shall be charged from the time of 
entrance, at the same rate per month as others are charged, 
provided that no fraction of a month be taken into the 
account. 

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the just proportion of the tuition fee paid in advance shall be 
returned to the parent or guardian. 

Sec. 6. A deposit of one dollar shall be required of every 
student at the opening of the session, to cover damages done 
to the building. At the close of the session the amount of 
damages assessed on each student shall be retained out of this 
deposit, and the remainder refunded to the student. 









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